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SUBMITTER: Pan L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6751168 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pan Lu L Quantin-Nataf Cathy C Breton Sylvain S Michaut Chloé C
Nature communications 20190918 1
Large impacts are one of the most important processes shaping a planet's surface. On Mars, the early formation of the Martian crust and the lack of large impact basins (only four unambiguously identified: Hellas, Argyre, Utopia, and Isidis) indicates that a large part of early records of Mars' impact history is missing. Here we show, in Chryse Planitia, the scarcity of buried impact craters in a near-circular area could be explained by a pre-existing topographic depression with more intense resu ...[more]